Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COHASSET, MASS., South Shore Music Circus. Love blossoms amid big-city racial tensions to the music of Leonard Bernstein in West Side Story...
...become a crucial question in the Democratic Convention. McCarthy would align much of his considerable force behind the ticket-although his alliance with Humphrey would also embitter many of his supporters. To make the post palatable to McCarthy, Humphrey would probably have to demand strong planks on peace and racial justice for the party platform...
Although these programs-and similar ones in other cities-all seem partly designed to cool the heat of racial tensions, nobody expects them to cure the ills of the ghettos. Says Washington's James L. Jones, director of youth programs for the District of Columbia mayor's office: "Problems that are not caused by music are not solved by music." But pending longer-range social solutions, curbstone concerts at least serve a useful role as entertainment, education, and reassurance to ghetto residents that they are not forgotten...
...call Racism a significant facet of the Summer School is, in my opinion, a gross injustice to the type of institution that will, I feel, make a substantial dent in today's "Racial Problems." Martin W. Oster
...graduate of Columbia and presently a medical student there, I "grew up" in the "Ivy League Racial Setting"--i.e. I had (and have) black classmates, of course, but not too many, needless to say. As a result, I must confess, my friends included only 2 Negroes. Once I moved into the Summer School dorms last summer, that number almost immediately increased by 400%--i.e. I met 8 or so black students whom I consider more than mere acquaintances. This summer, again, I have had the chance to meet several other Negro students. All of the black students I have...